]]>We’re now slightly past the six-month mark of the Trump Administration, and the view from politicalwoman here in the Midwest and Middle America is that Trump has three problems:

The Left – comprised of radical Democrats who’ve high-jacked the party in the name of socialism’s meme, “equality in poverty;” embittered Democrats a.k.a., Obamabots and Hillary worshipers; the MSM media, led by WaPo and the NYT who have lost any sense objective journalism, and have been turned into shells of themselves; and the “Soros crowd” the globalists within DC’s State Dept and Intel community, coupled with the Silicon Valley oligarchs who live in gated, protected communities while preaching diversity and inclusion to the rest of us.

The Republican Party – the party that has been given the dream gift of controlling more governorships and state legislatures than ever before, as well as the Senate and the House, but are squandering every opportunity to support a duly-elected president, as well as take take the lead on reforming legislation and making good on campaign promises because they’re either beholdened to the special interest and/or lack the spine to tell the Democrats, “take a long walk off a short pier”.

Donald Trump – for every important, sweeping speech that he gives, beginning with his address before Congress, to his European tour of Poland and other countries, his clear vision for an America as an economic powerhouse where the rule of law is for everyone, is constantly overshadowed by his maniacal tweets, which further fuel the hatred and contempt of problems #1 and #2.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Chip Somodevilla (Getty)

In the last two weeks, we’ve seen three senior Administration officials face the wrath of Trump. First, Attorney General Jeff Sessions felt the brunt of Trump displeasure. Jeff Sessions, former Republican Senator from Alabama, was one of the first major US senators of standing to back Trump. His backing gave Trump and his campaign the much needed credibility in the early months, when most of America, let alone the media, were saying, “huh?” Jeff Sessions, a law-and-order/laws are for everyone attorney general, he’s been a driving force in the recent upswing in enforcement of immigration laws on the books, targeting MS-13 and restoring the Justice Department from its role as “political enforcer” to one of prosecuting those who commit crimes against the US.

Trump’s public denigration of Sessions for supposedly not pursuing an investigation into Hillary Clinton was unprofessional and not worthy of the office of the President. Trump indicated via his top aides in November 2016 that he was not interested in pursuing a Clinton investigation. Yet, now as Trump is self-immersed in the Russian collusion allegations, he’s turning on the people and the movement that propelled him to the White House.

But Sessions, at least, is on the outside of the White House looking in. He doesn’t have to deal with the day-to-day chaos which this Administration has embodied these last six months.

President Trump and Reince Preibus at White House Chief of Staff swearing in (Carlos Barria-Reuters)

With the hiring by Trump, of Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci as White House Communications Director, we witnessed the “expletive deleted” New York Times interview take-down of then White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus, the supposed “leaker” of White House conversations and documents and the resignation of White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer. Spicer was frequently put in the untenable position of having to explain to the press Trump tweets on various topics that he himself only learned about after the tweet had been made. As for Priebus, who as chairman of the Republican Party walked the fine line of support and censure of the potential and then candidate Trump, against the rest of the, perhaps, more “qualified’ establishment field of candidates, he got the heave-ho, courtesy of “the Mooch” and loss of confidence from Trump coupled with White House disorder and infighting. Was the Trump hiring of Scaramucci to serve a purpose — Preibus persona non grata — and then become expendable. Politics is, after all, a Blood-sport.

Scaramucci himself, today, bit the dust courtesy of General John P. Kelly, former Homeland Security Director, and newly-minted White House Chief of Staff. Trump has a love of generals, perhaps because he thinks? knows? that they have a love of America versus the interests of one man. Kelly reportedly didn’t like the Scaramucci’s modus-operandi, and in an effort to regain control of a chaotic White House with numerous competing interests, Kelly’s first order of business was the de-clowning of the Communications office and its Director. At this point in time, the only direction the White House can go is up.

Kelly, lauded by both Democrats and Republicans alike, may be the only person who can save Donald Trump from himself, and thus put him back on the path toward fulfilling the tenets and promises that propelled him into the White House. Trump needs Kelly more than Kelly needs Trump.

General John P. Kelly and President Donald Trump (NYT)

General Kelly, is right now asserting his power in the White House including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The Chief of Staff must know everything that that affects the President, his schedule, and any decision he makes. Trump’s smartest move during his administration was the appointment of Kelly, but ….

Will Trump listen to Kelly?

From the mid-west, middle-class, middle-of-the-road view of the White House, this administration and its accomplishments, or lack thereof, lies firmly on the shoulders of the President. Yes, you can point to the the Congressional RINOs, beginning with Speaker Ryan, and the self-serving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but the proverbial fact-of-the-matter lies with Trump, and his leadership to date.

This author questions how a man who ran a multi-billion dollar empire, with such educated, well-spoken, competent children, could be so thick and idiotic thus far, when it comes to running his Administration failing to repeal and replace Obamacare with a viable alternative. Trump, thus far, is viewed as mercurial, with flashes of brilliance, but undisciplined. Trump can accomplish his agenda, but he has to be brought into tow with his “eyes on the prize.” Kelly can be Trump’s muse, and may be the best decision Trump makes of his first? term in office.

The question becomes will we see the “Apprentice” Trump, all showman and reality TV host, or will be we see “Trump International”, the businessman who promised to “Make American Great Again.”

]]>http://political-woman.com/2017/07/31/trump-agonistes-rethinking-trump/feed/0Trump vs. Bezoshttp://political-woman.com/2017/05/16/trump-vs-bezos/
http://political-woman.com/2017/05/16/trump-vs-bezos/#respondTue, 16 May 2017 18:33:37 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=5053That’s about what it’s coming down to. Two titans, one a sitting U.S. President and the other, the CEO of Amazon.com, a business now worth the equivalent of two Wal-marts.
I’m a long-time reader of The Washington Post, from the days of Katherine Graham and Ben ...

That’s about what it’s coming down to. Two titans, one a sitting U.S. President and the other, the CEO of Amazon.com, a business now worth the equivalent of two Wal-marts.

I’m a long-time reader of The Washington Post, from the days of Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee. In the movie, “All The President’s Men,” there’s a scene where Jason Robards (Bradlee) having been told potentially explosive Watergate material, asked “Woodward” and “Bernstein” about their sources and how many. Upon hearing their answers, he leaned back in his chair, and told them, “get some more” before he would publish the story.

With the latest story and headline from The Washington Post regarding how Trump allegedly shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister in a recent visit to the White House, subsequently endangering sources in the Middle East, we’ve been treated to a daily vitriol of one-sided, biased, reporting the likes of which would make the late Graham and Bradlee proverbially turn over in their graves.

I’ve been a daily reader for 26 years of The Post, especially as it relates to politics and those who play in the political sandbox. Following particular editorial columnists, I had my favorites among both liberals and conservatives. Agree or disagree, one could get two sides of a story.

That editorial candor and objectivity ceased when Jeff Bezos bought The Post in October 2013. From Michael Gerson to Jennifer Rubin, the tenor of op-ed articles has been nothing short of hysterical at times, and in many instances, downright vindictive. As recently re-reported, this change in editorial content may be the result of Trump’s implication that Amazon.com would be subject to an anti-trust review. Ahhh, there’s nothing like billions and billions of dollars at stake to stir bloodsport.

Has Trump been guilty of self-inflicted errors, such as running his mouth off or tweeting when he should just leave well-enough alone? Yes, several instances come to mind, the latest being the Comey firing. But in due course, he’ll learn, hopefully, to get a thicker skin. However, in no instance since he has resided in the Oval Office, has there been any indication by his words or actions that he doesn’t love his country.

Trump is beset by leaks within his Administration, the kind of which we’ve not witnessed in decades, if ever. His calling out of the media for their non-objective reporting further exacerbates these leaks, as the media, led by The Washington Post, is determined to take him down. That’s what it looks like sitting here in the Midwest.

During a statement last night to the press last night, May 15,

and during today’s White House press briefing, National Security Advisor, General H. R. McMaster specifically answered questions concerning the latest brouhaha regarding the aforementioned sharing of classified information. As he was present in the room with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, he emphatically stated that within the context of the conversation, that information shared with the Russian foreign minister was “wholly appropriate.”

General McMaster, as well as Secretary Tillerson, are reputable, educated, and highly experienced men in their own right. To believe that they would allow their own personal reputations to be tarnished, or would serve in an Administration that compromised Americans’ security, is not credible or substantiated.

The continuing hack job reporting by The Post, has diminished its own credibility and stature, egregiously. Gone are the days of solid, investigative reporting replaced by a vendetta to destroy a man and his family, a man who happens to be POTUS. To say that the change in The Post’s reporting has nothing to do with its present owner and his outright animosity toward the President is akin to selling a dimwit the Brooklyn Bridge.

President Trump needs a solid communications director and team in the White House, a team he can trust and work with, and needs to put them in place FAST! Americans can’t keep going through another 3-1/2 years of anonymous sources and he said/she said because not only is it dangerous for those caught us in the morass, in terms of destroying lives and careers, but it takes away from the bigger problems this country faces domestically and abroad.

My grandmother had a saying, “those who dig ditches under someone, usually falls into the ditch themselves.” Are you listening, Jeff?

]]>http://political-woman.com/2017/05/16/trump-vs-bezos/feed/0What is wrong with Susan Rice?http://political-woman.com/2017/04/04/what-is-wrong-with-susan-rice/
http://political-woman.com/2017/04/04/what-is-wrong-with-susan-rice/#respondWed, 05 Apr 2017 02:51:06 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=5045My grandmother had a saying, that “those who dig ditches under people, usually fall into one themselves.” In the case of Susan “YouTube video” Rice, one has to wonder how much longer she’s going to carry water for her former boss, Barack Obama, and former is ...

]]>My grandmother had a saying, that “those who dig ditches under people, usually fall into one themselves.” In the case of Susan “YouTube video” Rice, one has to wonder how much longer she’s going to carry water for her former boss, Barack Obama, and former is still in question. It was just a short while ago, March 22 to be exact, on PBS when Ms. Rice denied having any knowledge of the intelligence community’s surveillance of the Trump transition team.

We have now gone from Sgt. Schulz’s “I know nothing” to yesterday’s bombshell from Bloomberg’s Eli Lake that Rice sought the names of Trump associates in intel. The Wall Street Journal also piled on with their column, “Susan Rice Unmasked.” According to Ms. Rice, unmasking is part of the job, to put into context intelligence reports. Yet, one has to ask what was so important about the Trump transition team, other than the concern among Democrats that the Trump team were clueless buffoons, that merited the attention of Ms. Rice, and for so long. Rice’s tabs on the Trump campaign go back over a year, when it was still uncertain as to who was going to win not only the Republican nomination but the Presidency itself.

Unmasking is done by, and is the realm of, the intelligence communities. Susan Rice, as National Security Advisor, is not a producer of intel, but merely a consumer. In today’s interview with Andrea Mitchell, Rice provided an interesting scenario as to when she would ask the intel community for the name of an American to be unmasked.

“Let me give you just a hypothetical example. This is completely made up. But let’s say there was a conversation between two foreigners about a conversation they were having with an American, who was proposing to sell to them high-tech bomb making equipment. Now, if that came to me as National Security Advisor, it would matter enormously. Is this some kook sitting in his living room communicating via the internet, offering to sell something he doesn’t have? Or is it a serious person or company or entity with the ability to provide that technology perhaps to an adversary? That would be an example of a case where knowing who the U.S. person was, was necessary to assess the information.”

What is the one thing that strikes you with the scenario? The intel community — NSA, CIA, FBI — in full of analysts whose daily work is to screen and analyze intel down to the iota. What is important, who should know it. Using the above scenario from Susan Rice’s own words, she’s requested and given the name of a now unmasked individual. How would she know a “serious person” from a “kook.” I repeat, that is the job of the intelligence community. If they thought it was important that she should know the name of the individual, or any entity, in their reports, they would provide that to her. Instead, these entities were “pressured” into giving names. And for what purpose? We have to ask the female version of Gunga Din.

If you’re astute and watch the entire Rice interview with Andrea Mitchell, watch the body language, the eye movements, the speech rapidity of Ms. Rice ….. draw your own conclusions:

]]>http://political-woman.com/2017/04/04/what-is-wrong-with-susan-rice/feed/0What just happened at Middlebury College?http://political-woman.com/2017/03/04/what-just-happened-at-middlebury-college/
http://political-woman.com/2017/03/04/what-just-happened-at-middlebury-college/#respondSat, 04 Mar 2017 21:29:20 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=5030Dr. Charles Murray, a noted professor (B.A. History, Harvard University, Ph.D. Political Science, MIT) and author of several books, The Bell Curve and Coming Apart, was invited to speak March 2 at Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Murray and his work are widely known and have always ...

Dr. Charles Murray, a noted professor (B.A. History, Harvard University, Ph.D. Political Science, MIT) and author of several books, The Bell Curve and Coming Apart, was invited to speak March 2 at Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Murray and his work are widely known and have always been controversial, because he treads in areas that deal with race and gender, and voices opinions and findings that go against the present day, politically correct norm of social justice a.k.a. as ‘equal outcomes for all no matter how hard you worked vs. your neighbor.’ Dr. Murray’s work focuses on human intelligence, IQ, and that intelligence rather than socio-economic status or education is a better predictor of how you’ll fare in life, including income, job performance, etc.

As Dr. Murray was preparing to give his remarks at this college, (whose annual cost is $63,917 for tuition/room and board, FYI mom and dad) he was interrupted and shouted down by student protestors, who believe that their university is no place for differing views, critical thinking, such as Dr. Murray espouses. Check out the video below, the protestors really get going around 22:35 into the session. The pathetic part comes at the end as you watch some of the university faculty attempting to talk to the crowd.

Dr. Murray never gave his lecture in the original location afforded him. Instead he gave his speech elsewhere on campus, but not before he and another professor, Allison Stanger were attacked upon trying to leave the hall.

“As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough Student Center last evening following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,” according to Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and marketing.

Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.

“The protestors then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and try to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.”

There are a number of people I know with whom I have differing political views. Some of them have equated our current President with Fascism and refer to him as another Hitler. Can’t say that I’ve read anything, anywhere lately where the President or current administration has violently prohibited freedom of speech.

To a certain extent, the university is responsible for this debacle. In this present day climate, the university should have had campus security present. and after the protests were duly recorded, asked that the room be cleared or quiet for Dr. Murray to speak. But that didn’t happen, other than faculty members trying to rationalize with snowflakes, rather than ask them if they were familiar with Voltaire, and his phrase, “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Were I an alumni and/or a significant donor to the college, I would be on the phone or email with the Board Members, as well as the university president. My message, simple: checkbook closed until further notice. If it worked at Oxford, you can be darn sure it would work in the land that gave us Wall Street.

America’s universities are approaching a tipping point. Many of them have ceased to become centers of learning, where they open minds and encourage debate and the science of learning. Instead, they’re becoming incubators of intolerance and forms of bigotry that they accuse others of.

Middlebury and Berkeley but two who found their way into the news, but they are by no means the exception. Professional agitators and college activists are watching all of this play out, learning and taking notes. While Republicans may hold the Presidency, Congress and majority of State legislatures and governorships, the “Left” holds our schools.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2017/03/04/what-just-happened-at-middlebury-college/feed/0Did Trump just become the Democrats’ eight-year nightmare?http://political-woman.com/2017/03/01/did-trump-just-become-the-democrats-eight-year-nightmare/
http://political-woman.com/2017/03/01/did-trump-just-become-the-democrats-eight-year-nightmare/#respondWed, 01 Mar 2017 20:24:58 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=5018At last night’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Donald Trump became the Democrats’ worst nightmare. This was a Donald Trump that was never seen before by a majority of the Democrats sitting in the chamber, nor by millions of Americans who were tuning in ...

]]>At last night’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Donald Trump became the Democrats’ worst nightmare. This was a Donald Trump that was never seen before by a majority of the Democrats sitting in the chamber, nor by millions of Americans who were tuning in to see a potential circus. Millions, who after the inauguration, bought into the hysteria and Russian-hacking pablum first promulgated by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman. To hear the wailing and teeth-nashing, one would think that we were all on the verge of an apocalyptic abyss.

As Washington pundit, Charles Krauthammer, said last night, “this should have been his inaugural address.” Perhaps. But in both instances, Trump said what had to be said. We live in dangerous times, but we live our lives based upon hope and optimism for a better life for ourselves and our children.

Listening to the speech last night, one has to consider it in the context in which it was given. Some people, like Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, said, ‘short on specifics,’ yes, but this was not a ‘how to” speech. It was a speech equally given to Congress and the American people covering a wide swath of topics from defense to immigration, trade, jobs, taxes, education, healthcare, and then some. Each topic Trump covered, he gave a short synopsis of the problem, what he intended to do to fix it, and what were the end results for the American people to expect. He spoke in “plain English” that people, no matter their education or background, could understand.

Calm, deliberate, and in control, Trump left his provocateur, tweeting-side home, and instead showed us the Trump who has sat across the negotiating table and run a multi-billion dollar empire. His list of his administration’s accomplishments thus far, probably surprised many of the millions who were watching, since they would have no knowledge of this list if they merely listened to the major television networks and or read print media.

The Donald Trump that stood on the podium last night either posited a wake-up call for Democrats, or became their worst nightmare. While some people may wonder if the Trump we saw last night is the real Trump and not an aberration (given Trump’s past behavior, that’s a legitimate concern), the hundreds of thousands of people who stood in line for hours on end, rain or shine, to attend his campaign rallies in 2016, already know the answer.

Trump voiced a patriotism, and an optimism in the people of America that hasn’t been heard for a long time. He put into plain words what millions have felt and are feeling — that somewhere in our goodness and generosity as a nation who has been blessed and given so much, we’ve been ‘screwed-over’ by the rest of the world. And no, not just anyone can walk into our country because they want to. As Trump called attention to the stories of everyday people who suddenly found themselves grappling with the loss of family members murdered at the hands of people who entered illegally and were deported multiple times, audiences had the opportunity of seeing those people rarely mentioned in the media, but at any moment could be them.

Trump’s call throughout his address was put “America first.” For the 95 million people who are out of work, non-participants in the labor force, or some of the 43 million on food stamps, or others who have lost their jobs to lower-wage, H1-B visa holders, that populist refrain brings hopes for welcome relief. Trump may actually make capitalism look good again.

Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, listening to President Trump’s Address to the Joint Sesssion of Congress

Trump has set a very high bar for himself, and he has to deliver on the promises he made, because of his extended outreach to the people across the income, gender, race and education spectrum. If people believe their eyes and ears, and not what they read in the media, the Democrats have a long road back from the far-Left hole they’ve dug for themselves. Watching the Democrats last night during the speech, left us with an odd mixture between disbelief that this was the same man of the 2016 campaign trail, and utter despair that the Donald Trump standing before them, just debunked their creed of hysteria and cretinism, and could be an eight-year phenomenon like Reagan.

What, oh what, will the Democrats do? Continue down the same path as the last four months since the election, or, do they adopt their version of the populist theme, and try to recapture the seats lost at state levels.

At the moment, the ball is not in their court, but Trump’s.

P.S. Was it not refreshing to hear a Presidential address without the use of the “I” word at least 94 times.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2017/03/01/did-trump-just-become-the-democrats-eight-year-nightmare/feed/0The Democrats go “Wild”ernesshttp://political-woman.com/2016/12/20/the-democrats-go-wilderness/
http://political-woman.com/2016/12/20/the-democrats-go-wilderness/#respondTue, 20 Dec 2016 19:15:08 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=5003The Democrats latest foray into disruptive silliness played out Monday at the Electoral College. I use the term silliness, rather than some other tectonic term, because the Democratic party has ceased to be a party that can, or should be taken seriously in its present state.
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The Democrats latest foray into disruptive silliness played out Monday at the Electoral College. I use the term silliness, rather than some other tectonic term, because the Democratic party has ceased to be a party that can, or should be taken seriously in its present state.

Leading up to November 8, the Democratic party and its legions of progressives found in every walk of life, was convinced of absolute, undeniable victory. But then, the legions came up against the populist Trojan Horse and those invincible legions now look more like Babes in Toyland.

Fed the latest spoons of pablum of Russian hacking and fake news by their leaders who remain in denial that the unthinkable happened, the progressive wing of the Democratic party and their minions laid siege to the members of the Electoral College as their last hope to de-legitimize the upcoming Trump presidency. Luck was not on their side, but karma was.

This 2016 election was historic for a number of reasons which the Democrats have failed to grasp, or at the minimum, grasp publicly. Gone not only is the Presidency from their grasp, but the Senate and House remain in Republican hands. Since Barack Obama became President, the Democrats have lost over 1000 seats nationally, from state legislatures to governorships. Thank you Democratic party for being the gift that keeps on giving.

Now that the Trump presidency is a certainty, barring unforeseen events, his recent Cabinet picks foreshadow more meltdowns and migraines across campuses of America. Those students who graduated during the last eight years of the Obama presidency, and are working the midnight warehouse shift or the 4am barista shift may have a slightly different take on current events. Should the GDP under Trump start moving into the 4% plus annual growth zone, and jobs become available that will enable these under-employed to finally move out of their parents’ basements, we may see an entirely new voting bloc come into being for 2018-2020.

However, for now, we have to deal with Podesta-the-enabler blame game of Russian hackers and FBI back-stabbers. Interesting that the Russians leave their fingerprints all over the Podesta emails and Wikileaks, but yet James Comey in his July statement on the email server investigation, said that FBI couldn’t find any direct evidence, nor did they expect to, when he said with 100% certainty that they believed Hillary Clinton’s email server was hacked.

The party that once gave America Roosevelt, JFK and Humphrey, has dissolved into the craziness that even the likes of McGovern and Mondale would feel uncomfortable with. Safe spaces are necessary for traumatized students who can’t deal with every day life, Shakespeare’s portrait and works are no longer relevant because he’s a dead white man, people are bigots if they happen to believe in marriage between a man and woman, or, because they believe gender bathrooms are appropriate, and racist if they disagree with Barack Obama’s policies or support their local law enforcement. Is there any wonder why some people, who are holding two jobs to make ends meet when six years earlier prior to Obamacare, they only needed one, would vote for a return to sanity over more of the same?

Now the Left-on-steroids is setting their sights on coming to Washington to disrupt the inauguration. As recent comments by Michelle Obama to Oprah Winfrey regarding going from hope to hopeless portend,

“Because we feel the difference now. See, now we are feeling what not having hope feels like, you know. Hope is necessary. It is a necessary concept. What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”

we can only hope that she will refrain from going back into grudge mode, and her husband, in particular, will refrain from going back into “organizer” mode. From all appearances, that kind of hope remains elusive to date.

So on to 2017, and more teeth-gnashing and teeth-baring, the latter most likely coming from someone like Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren. “Chuckles” Schumer will do his part trying to scare seniors, and yet-to-be-named other legislators and bureaucrats will do their parts to disrupt and damage attempts to put science back into climate discussions, open pipelines and drilling sites to ensure American energy independence, make tax reform sensible, healthcare really affordable, and school choice a reality not a dream.

The Democrats were hit by a tidal wave of disgust the likes of which they haven’t seen in quite a while. Until members of the Democratic Party, and it will have to start at the local levels, absolve themselves of the crazies that took over their party, they’re in for a long stretch in the weeds. And after eight years of Obama, those weeds are looking pretty good right now.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2016/12/20/the-democrats-go-wilderness/feed/0Hillary and the Recount – Where does Entitlement End?http://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/hillary-and-the-recount-where-does-entitlement-end/
http://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/hillary-and-the-recount-where-does-entitlement-end/#respondTue, 29 Nov 2016 01:13:06 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=4992To say that the Clinton presidential loss was a bruising defeat is the understatement of understatements. Running for, and winning the Presidency of the United States, was a lifetime goal of Hillary Clinton. Losing in an electoral college landslide was not even a remote possibility. ...

]]>To say that the Clinton presidential loss was a bruising defeat is the understatement of understatements. Running for, and winning the Presidency of the United States, was a lifetime goal of Hillary Clinton. Losing in an electoral college landslide was not even a remote possibility. And yet, she’s home in Chappaqua, and Donald Trump is president-elect.

In hindsight, neither Clinton nor her campaign minions, saw the tsunami of the “average Joe, average Jane’s” discontent. That discontent was fueled by years of watching the little guy losing to special interests of crony capitalism, having to hold two jobs instead of one to pay for Obamacare premiums and out-of-pocket deductibles, the Justice Department’s willful blindness to illegal immigration, and people tired of being called racists and bigots because they happened to disagree with transgender bathrooms, to name just a few.

Throughout the campaign, the polls indicated that Clinton’s biggest problem was that she was not trustworthy. During the final debate, we have this moment when Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would honor the results of the election if he lost, and he replied, “I will look at it at the time. I am not looking at it now,” Hillary then shot back, that she was horrified.

Apparently, not so horrified now, when she’s the one who lost. Being the total hypocrite and doing nothing, saying nothing to stem the outbursts and protests during the last several weeks, Hillary apparently gave her assent to the Clinton campaign electing to join Jill Stein in a two state recount, Michigan and Wisconsin, having missed the Pennsylvania deadline of November 21 to request a recount. To paraphrase The New York Timescovering this story, there’s not a snowball’s chance of the recount changing the electoral college results. Instead, the Campaign is joining the effort to ensure that “hacking by Russia or other irregularities had not affected the results.” This, in addition to some Democrats, on her behalf, sending letters to strong-arm members of the electoral college to vote for Hillary.

First off, there is no evidence that any of the hacking of State Dept. emails or the Podesta emails, was done by Russia. That was pure Clintonian spin on a losing situation.

What then is the point. Are we witnessing the quintessential sore loser. Reportedly, the night of November 8 when she lost the election she was supposed to win, she had a Hillary-style meltdown, similar to what Secret Service agents frequently experienced when she was First Lady.

As the days pass, and Hillary passes through those Kubler-Ross “grief stages,” Hillary’s desire to still thwart Trump is done by merely questioning the legitimacy of the election. Karma found Hillary in 2016, but given that Hillary herself has always picked herself up from the political body slams, if her health still holds, don’t put it past her to think of running again in 2020. The Clintons still control the DNC, and are master schmoozers with much of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, their own personal ATM. Truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it involves Hillary Clinton’s obsession with the White House.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/hillary-and-the-recount-where-does-entitlement-end/feed/0Romney Brouhahahttp://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/romney-brouhaha/
http://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/romney-brouhaha/#respondMon, 28 Nov 2016 21:32:07 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=4979The battle for Secretary of State in the Trump Administration appears to have gotten wilder. Today, we learn that President-elect Trump is “furious” over campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s recent bashing of Mitt Romney over the national media airwaves. Governor Romney, as everyone is aware, is one ...

]]>The battle for Secretary of State in the Trump Administration appears to have gotten wilder. Today, we learn that President-elect Trump is “furious” over campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s recent bashing of Mitt Romney over the national media airwaves. Governor Romney, as everyone is aware, is one of the leading candidates for the prominent Cabinet position.

Among those being considered who at least have a ghost of a chance, (including former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, former UN Ambassador John Bolton, and potentially former General David Petraeus,) Romney is the leading candidate in the brouhaha category, with the Trump transition team in lock-up caused by Romney and his comments during the campaign. Having listened to Romney at the time, then followed by talk radio callers, it’s no surprise that Romney’s name has elicited the vehemence it has in some of the more conservative circles.

Earlier this year when Romney made those comments, he was one of hundreds of people in the so-called Republican establishment, who believed that not only couldn’t Trump win the election, but that he would relegate their beloved Republican Party into also-ran status for decades to come. Fast forward eight months later, and those hundreds are collectively eating crow.

But why the brouhaha. The campaign is over. And to use the commonly known phrase, “politics make strange bedfellows,” it should be no surprise that Trump is talking to Romney about this Cabinet position. Trump is approaching his Cabinet choices as a business decision. Trump’s objective is to assemble the strongest team he can, because he’ll need that team to clean up the worldwide mess that the current President (and former Secretary of State) has left us. This is not a time to play politics

Yes, Romney has used some pretty strong language in his critique of Trump. However, Trump wasted no words about Romney’s performance during the 2012 campaign, when he said of Romney, “he choked.” Which he did. Trump knows it, Romney knows it, and mostly every person who voted for Romney in 2012 knows it. And Romney, has to live with that fact that cost him the White House.

If for just one moment, Romney’s actions and comments of the past year were put aside, as in they never took place, I would venture to guess that we would not be having as virulent a conversation about Romney as a potential Cabinet pick. Go back to Romney’s moment about Russia during his 2012 debate with Obama:

and yes, Romney was right, not only about Russia and Putin, but Iran as well. It is this kind of foreign policy experience, coupled with coolness that Trump needs at the State Department. What Romney also has going for him is that he’s a businessman, and understands the art of negotiation with the outcomes that are needed to create that win-win situation.

As of this writing, Trump and Romney will be meeting again for the second time at the President-elect’s request. Trump has excellent instincts about people and again, the team he needs to “make America great again.” His Cabinet choices so far have been superb. Let’s trust him on this one as well, no matter who he picks.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2016/11/28/romney-brouhaha/feed/0The Passing of Fidel – Two perspectives from a sitting president and a president-electhttp://political-woman.com/2016/11/27/the-passing-of-fidel-two-perspectives-from-a-sitting-president-and-a-president-elect/
http://political-woman.com/2016/11/27/the-passing-of-fidel-two-perspectives-from-a-sitting-president-and-a-president-elect/#respondSun, 27 Nov 2016 21:37:27 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=4975During the early 90’s, I lived and worked in Moscow and traveled throughout the former Soviet Union. As I witnessed the ravages of 70+ years of Communism, I remembered Kissinger’s comment, “Russia is a military giant but an economic dwarf.” Still with me are the ...

]]>During the early 90’s, I lived and worked in Moscow and traveled throughout the former Soviet Union. As I witnessed the ravages of 70+ years of Communism, I remembered Kissinger’s comment, “Russia is a military giant but an economic dwarf.” Still with me are the memories of walking into a “grocery store” and nearly keeling over from the smell of spoiling food, because the store had no refrigeration system. Or visiting another grocery store, where people’s bills were totaled on an abacus, and meat was chopped on tree stumps by women with axes in their hands. My Russian assistant, although paid in US dollars, could not afford a washer/dryer, and did her laundry in a bathtub before the hot water was turned off at 10pm by the state utility.

If Cuba is anything like what I witnessed during those years in the former Soviet Union, then Trump is spot-on in his comments:

“Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

“While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.

“Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.”

“At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.

“For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends – bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba.

“Today, we offer condolences to Fidel Castro’s family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.”

Obama’s foreign policy naïveté has made this world a far more dangerous place than it was eight years ago. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Syria, countries have been torn apart with millions of people displaced and now nomadic refugees, changing the world and countries internally in incalculable ways. Obama’s inaction and actions have caused grief and suffering for people in his own country as well, e.g., the family of Kate Steinle and the families of those killed in Benghazi.

]]>http://political-woman.com/2016/11/27/the-passing-of-fidel-two-perspectives-from-a-sitting-president-and-a-president-elect/feed/0Yes, I’m a woman, and Yes, I’m still voting for Trumphttp://political-woman.com/2016/10/09/yes-im-a-woman-and-yes-im-still-voting-for-trump/
http://political-woman.com/2016/10/09/yes-im-a-woman-and-yes-im-still-voting-for-trump/#respondSun, 09 Oct 2016 19:49:35 +0000http://political-woman.com/?p=4970Since the release of the Trump/Billy Bush audio tape from the Access Hollywood archives, the mainstream media has put the issue on steroids in the hope that undecided voters will finally swing to Hillary Clinton, and Republican voters, especially those with families, will either stay ...

Since the release of the Trump/Billy Bush audio tape from the Access Hollywood archives, the mainstream media has put the issue on steroids in the hope that undecided voters will finally swing to Hillary Clinton, and Republican voters, especially those with families, will either stay home in disgust or reconsider Hillary.

If Trump voters and supporters are anything like this politicalwoman, than it’s wishful thinking on the part of the Democrats and their sycophantic media partners. Much of my career has been spent in male-dominated areas such as commodities, politics, international trade development, and manufacturing. There isn’t a lewd comment(s) that I haven’t heard. Perhaps it’s my age, perhaps I’m thick-skinned, perhaps I grew up in another time when women accepted that men. when they’re “with the guys” put on the male bravado and trash talk. All you have to do is follow a male foursome on the golf course and you get a lesson in male-ness.

When I hear all the brouhaha about this audio tape, I say show me an M-A-N, who at some point in his life, 17 to 70, hasn’t made comments about a woman in some lewd fashion. Whether post-pubescent, drunk in the frat house, at the local watering hole, on the golf course (see above), or newly divorced, this stuff happens. As I watch the other “Republicans” moan and bash Trump, thinking that he’s taking the entire party down to defeat in November, I’d say, ‘take a chill pill and put your big boy pants on.’

So here we have the Trump phenomenon, and a tape released by Access Hollywood, giving Trump his version of Romney’s “47%”. Meanwhile, at the same time, more documents are leaked about Hillary and her emails, her public and private positions via Goldman Sachs speeches from Wikileaks John Podesta emails, and the national security of this country, being played fast and loose with classified materials found on her server. And then there’s the complete obliteration of Jim Comey’s reputation and the tainting of the FBI. Finally, let’s not forget the ties between the Clinton Foundation and how the Russians ended up with a third of the US uranium supply, as covered by The New York Times.

This election has a lot at stake. We’ve heard that before in the Romney/Obama 2012 election. However, given the foreign policy debacles of the last four years beginning with Libya, ISIS, the migrant crisis, open borders, TPP, global climate change (what a farce), the question comes down to whether people want to put a politician corrupt to the core and who has enriched herself through that corruption, into the White House, or whether they want to put a man who shoots his mouth off, but who loves his country into that . Someone who actually knows how to create jobs, and has built companies employing thousands of people.

For me, it’s not even a choice or question. Oh, and by the way, for all you dog lovers out there, that’s another black mark for Hillary; she doesn’t like them.